Learn from a Local: Kyle Cobb, President of advanced.farm

Join us to hear Kyle Cobb, President of advanced.farm, share his journey building an agricultural robotics company in our Sacramento region.

By AgStart

Date and time

Starts on Thursday, May 2 · 5:30pm PDT

Location

AgStart Event Center

1100 Main Street Suite 170 Woodland, CA 95695

Agenda

5:30 PM

Connecting & Refreshments

Opportunity to connect with attendees, light refreshments will be available.

6:00 PM

Speaker Presentation + Q&A

Exciting speaker presentation with opportunity to ask questions.

7:00 PM

Connecting & Discussing

Opportunity to connect with attendees and discuss presentation topic.

7:30 PM

Event End

About this event

2 hours

About Our Speaker: Kyle Cobb

Kyle Cobb is the President and Co-Founder of advanced.farm. Before advanced.farm, Kyle was a Co-Founder of Greenbotics, a cutting-edge platform for robotic solar panel cleaning that was acquired by SunPower in 2013. Kyle has a diverse business background ranging from investment banking to product management, and has an undergrad and an MBA degree from UCLA. He lives in Davis with his wife and two children.

About advanced.farm

advanced.farm is a 21st-century ag equipment company centered around robotics, with a current focus on automating harvest and postharvest in fresh fruit. The two initial crops on which the company has demonstrated their equipment include strawberries and apples. In each instance, the company has leveraged strategic partnerships to help co-design the solution to meet the needs of their customers. advanced.farm is based in Davis, California and has raised over $40M of venture investment led by Kubota, Yamaha, CNHi, Catapult Ventures and Impact Ventures.

To learn more visit www.advanced.farm

About The Series: Learn From a Local

Learn from a Local is an on-going speaker series hosted by AgStart, a non-profit organization supporting entrepreneurs advancing innovation in agriculture, food, and health. Typically on the 1st Thursday evening of every month, AgStart hosts a local speaker from the agriculture, food, and health world to speak on a topic relevant to our entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our goal is to offer a space to connect with local individuals and learn from leaders in our local AgriFoodTech sector on topics relevant to our AgStart community. Events take place in our AgStart Event Center: 1100 Main St., Suite 170, Woodland, CA 95695. An approximate event agenda is detailed below.

Learn more at www.agstart.org

Organized by

AgStart

AgStart is a startup incubator with a mission to accelerate Ag | Food | Health innovation in our Western region. Our nearly 13,000 square foot Lab@AgStart incubator in downtown Woodland dramatically lowers the costs for science-based entrepreneurs to conduct their bench-level commercialization, through sharing the resources of our Yocha Dehe Wet Lab, Bayer LifeHub California@AgStart, Fermentation and Tissue Culture Labs, and the Raley's Food Lab, in addition to shared and dedicated office facilities. In addition to facilities, AgStart offers education, mentoring and connections to collaborators, customers and investors. We have helped hundreds of innovators and startups since our program opened its doors in 2012.